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The Swiss Spy

By: Alex Gerlis
Narrated by: Stephen Critchlow
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About this listen

It's not unusual for spies to have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most, and after he is stopped by British Intelligence at Croydon airport on the eve of the Second World War, he finds he has even more.

In March 1941 in Berlin, haunted by a dark episode from his past, he makes a fateful decision resulting in a dramatic journey to the Swiss frontier, with a shocking outcome.

©2015 Alex Gerlis (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd Espionage Historical Mystery Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting

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Critic reviews

"Intriguing novel full of extraordinary insights into the human stories behind the great struggle against Hitler. Fascinating read." (Gavin Esler, broadcaster, on The Best of Our Spies)
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I really appreciated this book, and was very pleased with the narrator Stephen Critchlow. Top notch.

Great story, excellent narration

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Brilliant story, brilliantly narrated. Couldn’t put it down. Fast pace and original, Narration absolutely superb.

Great srory

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Superb story, many twists and turns, none more so than at the end. A fine spy story of WW2.

Great Narration.

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I liked the narration and the story. It was hard to remember all the names of the streets etc but overall I would recommend this as a good listen. .

The storyline was convincing and clever

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An exciting and enjoyable read with plenty of hooks to keep the reader interested. The narrator is a very good actor with the ability to convey different voices and accents, however much of the action takes place in Germany or German speaking Switzerland and his erratic and annoyingly inaccurate German pronunciation is very irritating for anyone who knows the language. German has easy pronunciation rules which even a non speaker can learn and master. Certainly this gifted reader with his good ear for accents could have mastered it. It seems no one prepared him.
Apart from that it's a good and well read novel.

Well written but not well produced.

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